In-N-Out Goes Back To LA County 'Roots' As It Expands Eastward

BALDWIN PARK, CA — In-N-Out Burger is moving its corporate headquarters back to where the business began more than 75 years ago in Los Angeles County as part of a plan that also incudes an eastward expansion.

The company this week announced it would close the Irvine headquarters it has occupied since the mid 90s and combine its West Coast offices into one facility in Baldwin Park by 2029. Corporate staff will work either at the San Gabriel Valley office or an in-the-works "Eastern territory" office in Tennessee.

"Some of our associates will be relocating to Tennessee, which makes it even more important to centralize our western headquarters in one location, and our company’s deepest roots are in Baldwin Park," said Lynsi Snyder, In-N-Out's owner and president. "Our West Coast family will be together in one place, where In-N-Out Burger began."

Harry Snyder — the current president's grandfather — opened his first burger stand at Francisquito and Garvey avenues in Baldwin Park in 1948. That's less than a mile from the Baldwin Park office, SF Gate reported.

The Irvine office has over 500 employees across nine floors, according to the company.

The planned Tennessee office will employ around 200 people in a 100,000-square-foot, $126 million building. It's slated to open later this year, Retail Wire reported.

“[My husband] just started talking about Tennessee, and then God started working on my heart. I started bringing it to the office, ‘I think we’re supposed to go to Tennessee,’” Snyder said earlier this month. “It was really just a God thing. And then of course the more I’ve come here, I’ve fallen in love with really the whole state, but there’s something very quaint about especially the Franklin area.”

The office will help support 35 new In-N-Out restaurants in Tennessee. The company famously requires a hamburger patty-making facility to be located within 300 miles of its locations.